Heh. You could blow up a certain Commodore PET computer by poking a memory location that would attempt to double the screen resolution. The hardware wasn't equipped for this and you would eventually start hearing this popping/cracking sound and small trails of smoke would appear. That's where I learned to be a hacker... After understanding that fucking up a computer that your school could barely afford, I realized that using my enthusiasm for computers to do something productive was more useful.
What are you doing posting about the War Games movie? Did you really not notice that this discussion was purely about whether Gates said the 640k thing? Tsssk... People.
To be honest, I use my MS OFfice installation on my Parallels instance, as it's much faster and usable than the Mac Office 2004. I'm planning to give Office 2008 (which should be universal) a bit of a look, and approach that with an open mind, but for now I'm happier with using the Windows version under my VM.
Yes, yes. I read the arguments about the other towns. BTW, was that the Didcot power station in the opening scenes of the movie...? Being from Oxford originally, it looked familiar....
I worked in a tech support group a while back, and we had one tech who when he couldn't figure out the problem would make something up. We started some fun with him by inventing computer problems. One particular was the "Flux Bios is out of synch" problem... Soon after I coded a Windows service that would pop up fake error messages on his desktop with randomly generated error messages that we plugged into a database. These errors were all faithfully reported back to the customers as the diagnosis to their problems...
Although I'd hardly place Widmer in the top of Portland brews...
A Texan, a Californian, and Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long draught, then another and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair.
The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!"
The Texan says, "In Texas, there is plenty of whiskey and the bottles are cheap."
A while later, not wanting to be outdone, the Californian pulls out a bottle of champagne, takes a few sips, throws the champagne into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots it in midair.
The Oregonian can't believe his eyes, "What the heck did you do that for? That was a perfectly good bottle of champagne!"
The Californian says, "In California, we have plenty of champagne and bottles are cheap."
So, awhile later, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen. He opens it, takes a sip, and then chugs the whole bottle. He then puts the bottle in his saddlebag, pulls out his gun, and shoots the Californian.
The Texan, shocked, says, "Why the hell did you do that?!"
The Oregonian replies, "In Oregon, we have plenty of Californians and the bottles are worth a nickel."
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Heh. You could blow up a certain Commodore PET computer by poking a memory location that would attempt to double the screen resolution. The hardware wasn't equipped for this and you would eventually start hearing this popping/cracking sound and small trails of smoke would appear.
That's where I learned to be a hacker... After understanding that fucking up a computer that your school could barely afford, I realized that using my enthusiasm for computers to do something productive was more useful.
What are you doing posting about the War Games movie? Did you really not notice that this discussion was purely about whether Gates said the 640k thing? Tsssk... People.
But in this case, where is "here"? Is it in the void of space where the photo was taken, or is it on the planet which is the target of the photo?
Last time I checked, the global population was 6,587,774,956, so that doesn't even scratch the surface. Try harder Apple!
To be honest, I use my MS OFfice installation on my Parallels instance, as it's much faster and usable than the Mac Office 2004. I'm planning to give Office 2008 (which should be universal) a bit of a look, and approach that with an open mind, but for now I'm happier with using the Windows version under my VM.
Yes, but does it blend? Oh... Wait, that's Digg...
Wrong. Interesting too that the site I got directed to when ordering mine was in Germany (.de)....
:D Where are my mod points when I need them....
The field wears shiny shorts?
Or, even without the trailing slash: http://andrews.trash.googlepages.com/home
"Use the preview button! Check those URLs!"
I have had a creepy feeling about a local restaurant. Now I can confirm my fears are true... http://andrews.trash.googlepages.com/home/
Adriana Lima is hot, I'd give her some of my DNA anytime....
the city manager of Tuttle gets some spyware on his pc....?
Oh yeah, baby. Jeff Hunter with an almost empty rack. Wait..
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/02/26
Any opinions on exactly when....? ;-)
Ehrm... Right here in Oregon...
http://www.portlandtribune.com/simpsons/
Yes, yes. I read the arguments about the other towns. BTW, was that the Didcot power station in the opening scenes of the movie...? Being from Oxford originally, it looked familiar....
I worked in a tech support group a while back, and we had one tech who when he couldn't figure out the problem would make something up. We started some fun with him by inventing computer problems. One particular was the "Flux Bios is out of synch" problem... Soon after I coded a Windows service that would pop up fake error messages on his desktop with randomly generated error messages that we plugged into a database. These errors were all faithfully reported back to the customers as the diagnosis to their problems...
Wouldn't it be a rather good idea to have the "power supply switched to 0 before you rip out the motherboard and ram" anyway....?
I know that I wasted my mod points by posting, but "bad to slam islam", that's gotta be a great title for a song....
Although I'd hardly place Widmer in the top of Portland brews...
A Texan, a Californian, and Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long draught, then another and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair.
The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!"
The Texan says, "In Texas, there is plenty of whiskey and the bottles are cheap."
A while later, not wanting to be outdone, the Californian pulls out a bottle of champagne, takes a few sips, throws the champagne into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots it in midair.
The Oregonian can't believe his eyes, "What the heck did you do that for? That was a perfectly good bottle of champagne!"
The Californian says, "In California, we have plenty of champagne and bottles are cheap."
So, awhile later, the Oregonian pulls out a bottle of Widmer Hefeweizen. He opens it, takes a sip, and then chugs the whole bottle. He then puts the bottle in his saddlebag, pulls out his gun, and shoots the Californian.
The Texan, shocked, says, "Why the hell did you do that?!"
The Oregonian replies, "In Oregon, we have plenty of Californians and the bottles are worth a nickel."
But the Google "Gulp" drink looks a bit dodgy....